EXHIBITIONS
The Knockdown Serenade
Thesis Exhibition by:
Sebastián Villamil
&
Felipe Villamil
Openeing Reception: May 1st, 6 PM.
May 1st – 11th, 2026
A thick atmosphere settles over Grant Street, spilling from Northlight Gallery into the air. The scents of blue raspberry, green apple, and cherry cola blend with the voices waiting for their chance to shine.
Follow the sound and step into ecstasy alongside a choir of fallen stars singing along to the latest fountain soda one-hit wonder mix. Filthy sweet voices after dark, slushed dreams, and mixed feelings. Let yourself be permeated by the pure contamination of The Knockdown Serenade.
March 20,2026 – March 28, 2026
To Wilt
This is not a romance. It is an inquiry into what love becomes under observation:
image, transcript, measurement, replay.
February 06 – February 28, 2026
1970s Photography in the Northlight Collection
Anne Noggle, Roger Buchanan, and New California Views: 1970s Photography in the Northlight Collection.
The 1970s was a decade marked by change, economic and energy crises, the Watergate scandal, the continuation of the civil rights movement, protests against the Vietnam war, economic inequality, activism for lgbtqia and women’s rights, and affirmative action.
October 17 – November 8, 2025
Unsuspected
Unsuspected proposes to focus on the overlooked, the insignificant, and the forgotten.
September 05 – October 03 , 2025
Of Light and Alchemy
In the exhibition, Of Light and Alchemy, the desire still burns in these artists as they continue the rich and multi-faceted tradition of experimentation and discovery that was marked by those announcements nearly 200 years ago.
April 17-26, 2025
Garden
“Garden” comprises thousands of amateur photographs sourced from digital archives and social media accounts, transferred onto glass. Many of these images are manipulated, stripped of names or any contextual information. They depict individuals who lost their lives, were forcibly disappeared, or arrested due to the socio-political conditions in Iran from the Islamic Revolution of February 1979 to the present.
April 03 - April 12, 2025
Tricky Ricky
Tricky Ricky is an interactive thesis exhibition by Richard Pence.
March 20 - March 29, 2025
long violence dreamt me west
Powerlines and trees connect communities, sharing resources, spreading communication. When the ties between them are cut, only a memory of the bond remains. That memory shifts as it passes from mouth to mouth, malleable as copper, occluding and redefining the original relationship; a story broken from its context and reimagined again and again.
February 28 - March 7, 2025
Gut-Rot
Gut-Rot invites audiences to engage with the regenerative potential of decay and our interconnectedness with one another.
Jan 24 to Feb 22
Reclaiming Red
Reclaiming Red explores the colonial implications of the color redand demonstrates how Indigenous people use it for healing, peace, sacredness, unity and Hózhó
November 15- November 25, 2024
After Party
This exhibition of expanded photography takes the mythology of the “Party School” as a point of departure.
September 06 - November 01, 2024
Tasvir Exhibition
A Research Exhibition on Contemporary Iranian Image-Based Art
March 29 to April 27, 2024
Healing – Rethinking Gender
An interdisciplinary collaborative exhibition of artists, faculty and graduate students at ASU.
January 19– February 03, 2024
Land, Body & Archive
Land, Body & Archive, an exhibition by Southwest Photo Collaborative
Phoenix Transect
Phoenix Transect features the work of ASU alumni who participated in a multi-year field study with Professor Emeritus Mark Klett.
Nov. 17-Dec. 1, 2023
Meaning Making Machines
Meaning Making Machines celebrates/visualizes the embodiment of the photographic process through the singular practices of a group of student artists.
Sept. 15 – Nov. 4, 2023
Seral Bodies
Northlight Gallery’s forthcoming exhibition Seral Bodies, is curated by Roshii Montaño and Ninabah Winton and will examine the contemporary practice of Indigenous photographers and artists.
Oct 21 - Nov 19, 2022
American Journey
Join us in the gallery for the opening reception of An American Journey Continues, photographs and digital montage by ASU Professor Stephen Marc.
Sept 8 - Oct 8, 2022
Reimagining Earth
Features the works of ASU MFA alumni who explore the experience of the human animal and the non-human creatures that share this Earth.
April 1 – 23, 2022
50 Years of Curating
Northlight Gallery celebrates 50 years with an exhibition featuring the creative works of its curators since its establishment in 1972.
March 4 – April 2, 2022
Circle of Influence
Northlight Gallery and the ASU School of Art will honor Regents Professor Mark Klett for 40 years of service to the university with an exhibition.
Oct 21 – Nov 19, 2021
Naked and The Nude
Naked and The Nude brings together works from the Northlight Gallery Permanent Collection and the Solari Foundation Collection.
Sept 9 – Oct 9, 2021
Memento Mori
Memento Mori: Memento Vivere is an exhibition on death and photography, and will showcase a collection of image-based works.
Jan 21 – Feb 19, 2021
Borders and Boundlessness
Borders and Boundlessness features the photographs of ASU MFA alumni.
September 26 - October 26, 2019
Person Perception
Person Perception Persona features portraits from the Solari Foundation on loan to Northlight Gallery by photographers well known and accepted in the canon of the history of photography.